15.000 Students at the front door.

Big companies like Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell predict that half of their work force 10 years from now has yet to be recruited. In geoscience, a master's degree is still the entry ticket for many jobs. But experts say companies are becoming more flexible about hiring and training undergraduates. They will have to. Industry [in the US] will need up to 30,000 more experts over the next decade, but at current rates, U.S. universities will produce only half that many graduate degrees. Question: Who is going to train the other 15.000?

Background article in the Seattle Times.